Avatar photoThe Fourth Customer

The Lost Angeles Times reports some old news—that a shipment of components for advanced centrifuges, bound for Libya, may have been diverted to an unknown country. Speculation continues about the identity of AQ Khan’s “fourth customer.”

Avatar photoTHUNK! DART, Meet MUBLCOM

NASA’s DART satellite may have bumped into the MUBLCOM satellite during a proximity operation.

Avatar photoSTP-R1

In May 2004, I blogged that the Air Force “exercised an option order for a Minotaur space launch vehicle … to launch a classified payload in 2005.” Given that the Minotaur’s other payloads include XSS-11 and NFIRE, I was pretty eager to find out some details about this classified payload. A new detail has emerged: …

Avatar photoRice on North Korea: It's All Good

Condoleeza Rice willfully misrepresents the Agreed Framework in order to argue that the United States is safer with stalled Six Party talks and an unfrozen North Korean plutonium program than the Clinton-era Agreed Framework, which produced a verifiable freeze on North Korea’s plutonium efforts.